Cigarette package



May 20, 1930. c A PENN 1,759,366

CIGARETTE PACKAGE Filed Feb. 16, 1929 Patented May 20, 1930 UNITEDSTATES CHARLES FA.

PATENT OFFICE PENN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN TOBACCOCOM- PANY, OI NEW-YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY CIGARETTEPACKAGE Application filed February-.16, 1929. Serial No. 340,503.

package designed to conform in appearance to that of a package ofaselected smoking tobacco.

Many smokers prefer to make their owncigarettes, and certain types ofsmoking to bacco have been widely advertised and are known practicallyWherever cigarettes are smoked as designed for a filler in hand madedesirable that there be something more than cigarettes.

In order to enable the advertising 'of the brand of smoking tobacco andthe fame of said tobacco to inure to the benefit of the same tobaccowhen in cigarette form, it is the mere statement that the filler of thecigarette is of the well known tobacco.

One of the primary objects-of the present invention'is a method ofmarketing such tobacco in the form of cigarettes, in a packageconforming in appearance to that of the original package of the brandofsmoking tobacco, and having in connection therewith certaincharacteristics of the form.-

Another object is the provision of a package of the character inquestion having in connection therewith a. pendant, in the form ofa'cord and an attached tag, designed to resemble a bag of smokingtobacco with a tag.

. Another object is the provision of a string and, tag, L designed. tosimulate, the draw string of a bag, .so connected with the package thatwhen the draw string is partially detached from the package, the endofthe package will be opened to enable access to the cigarettes.

Another object is the provision of a'package of cigarettes shaped, andhaving in com nection therewith well known characterisrettes, thereby toobtain for the new form the advantages in the way of fame and ad-'vertising accruing to the brand.

With these and other objects in view theinvention consists in theconstruction and novfel combination of parts fully describedhereinafter, illustrated in the accompany ing drawings, and pointed outin the claims appended hereto, it being understood that various changesin the form, proportion, size HEIWSSUED and minor details ofconstructionwithin the scope of the claims, may be resorted to withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming a part hereof Fig. 1 is a perspective view of apackage of cigarettes, prior to the closingof the end,

and with a part broken away.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing'the first step of folding.

Fig.3 is a perspective "view of apart of the package, showlng the topfolded.

Fig.4 is a similar view with the stamp in place and one end of the cordconnecte Fig. 5 is a perspective view of apart of:

the package showing the method of placing the outer wrapper, usually oftransparent paper. I

Fig. 6 isa perspective view of the completed package.

Fig. 7 is a similar view showing the first step in the operation ofopening the package.

Fig. 8 is a similar view of a part of the package showing it completelyopened. Cigarettes of the character in questlon are usually put up in awrapper of foil, or a composite wrapper of foil and-paper. Outsideofthis is a shuck of heavier paper, and the outer wrapper is oftransparent material, such for instance, as glassine paper. In Fig. 1,the wrapper of foil or foil and pa er,'indicated at 1, is placedadjacent to the clgarettes 2. The open end of the foil wrapper is closedusually by pushing in the end folds indicated at 3 and 4, onto the endsof the cigarettes, and afterwards pushing in the side folds 5, andsecuring them together.

In the present arrangement, one of the end folds 4 is separated from'theside folds 5' by slits -indicated at 6, and prior to the folding, of thefold 4 a cord, 7, such as are used as draw strings fortobacco bags, isplaced across the package end, justinside the fold L The fold 4 is nowfolded down upon the cigarette ends and the cord.

Thep'ackage so formed is placed in the 1 wrapper folded-at one end ofthe cigarettes,

shuck, as shown in 3, after which the revenue stamp 9 is placed acrossthe sealed folds 5, and one end of the cord 7 is secured to the stampand to the folds 5, in anysuitable manner, as for instance, by paste.Afterwards the glassine wrapper 10 'is placed, and

the open end is folded in the same manner as the wrapper 1, that is, bypushing in the end folds 11 and 12, and afterwards the side folds 13,which are then sealed together.

In pushing'in the end fold 12, the other end of the cord, namely; thatto which the tag 14 is attached, is pushed in with the fold,

so that itlies partly beneath the fold, as shown in Fig. 6, wherein thatpart of the cord which is covered, is indicated in dotted lines. The tag14 may be attached to the cord in any suitablemanner, as for instance,in the manner shown, or by passing the cord through an opening in thetag. The tag bears advertising matter of the same character as v isfound on the corresponding tagof a bag of smoking tobacco. I

In opening the'package, the cord is pulled outward, and-breaks thetransparent wrapper. Further outward pulling upon the cord cuts theinner wrapper and the outer wrapper along the lines indicated at 15inFig. 7, but leaves the pendant, that is, the cord and tag attached.

In. practice, the cigarettes are packaged by machinery, which'forms thewrapper 1 about a suitable number of cigarettes, inserts the package soformed into' theshuck, or folds the shuck about the package, andafterwards applies the stamp and the ,glassin'e wrapper. The tearingcord may be placed by the same machinery, so that the entire operationof wrapperand placing the cord is automatic.

' The end of the package is usually sealed by part 1 wax, and this waxholds theconnected of the cord to the package.-

; What is, claimed as new is 1. Acigarette package having at one end afold free at its side edges from the adjacent folds, a tearing cordlyingbeneath said fold, said cord havin a portion connected withthe foldedend of t e ackageand another. por tion connected with a tag.

2. A package, of cigarettes designed to simulate'a bag of smokingtobacco of a standard brand provided with a draw string havcord free,said extremity being provided with a ta 3. A cigarette package includingan inner wrapper and an outer wrapper, the inner wrapper having at oneend a fold free at its side edges from the adjacent fold, a tearing cordhaving the intermediate portion thereof lying beneath said fold, one ofthe ends of the cord being connected to the folded end inga tag at thefree end thereof, the ackage being of-substantially the shape an size ofthe bag, and including an inner and an outer the mner wrapper having afold free at its side edges from the other folds, a tearing cord havingthe intermediate portion thereof covered by the free fold, one of theends of the cord being secured to the folded end of the inner wrapper,and that portion of the other .-end adjacent to the free fold beingfolded inwardly beneath the adjacent fold of the outer wrapper, leavingthe extremity of the I so

